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Up From Slavery: An Autobiography

CHAPTER X
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Aside from this, we help supply the local market with these vehicles.

The supplying of them to the people in the community has had the same effect as the supplying of bricks, and the man who learns at Tuskegee to build and repair wagons and carts is regarded as a benefactor by both races in the community where he goes.

The people with whom he lives and works are going to think twice before they part with such a man.
The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of race.

One man may go into a community prepared to supply the people there with an analysis of Greek sentences.

The community may not at the time be prepared for, or feel the need of, Greek analysis, but it may feel its need of bricks and houses and wagons.


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